Executive Learning Seminar Program
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Program Schedule
| Morning: Text Study & Havruta | Afternoon: Guest Speakers and Touring | Evening | ||||
| Sun. June 29 Beginnings |
8:45 Registration 9:00 - 11:00 From Shepherd to General Meir Schweiger |
11:15 - 1:15 David: One End and Many Beginnings Yair Zakovitch |
Lunch and Optional Mincha | 2:30 Films and Discussion Katie Green |
Free Time | 7:00 Dinner and speaker |
| Mon. June 30 |
9:00 - 11:00 Two Leaders: David and Saul Michael Hattin |
11:15 - 1:15 Soulmates: David and Jonathan Neima Novetsky |
2:30 Bible Drama Joyce Klein |
Free Evening | ||
| Tues. July 1 The Sword and the Book |
9:00 - 11:00 The Philistine Threat |
11:15 - 1:15 The Sweet Singer of Israel Zvi Hirschfield |
2:30 Where David and Goliath Faced Off Guided tour of the Elah Valley Shulie Mishkin |
Free Evening | ||
| Wed. July 2 Politics and Religion |
8:30 - 12:00 Shilo and Jerusalem, site visit and lecture Dov Berkovits |
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch |
2:30 Jerusalem: The Political and Spiritual Capital of the Jewish People Daniel Sperber |
8:00 Parshat HaShavua, Weekly Torah Portion Avivah Zornberg |
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| Thurs. July 3 |
9:00 - 11:00 Wives and Loves: Michal, Abigail, and Bat-Sheva Daniel Landes and Hannah Landes |
11:15 - 1:15 Sons and Betrayal: Absalom, Adonijah |
2:30 David’s Kingdom: Ir David Guided tour of the City of David, Jerusalem |
7:30 Concluding Dinner: David’s Legacy |
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Guest Lecturers
Katie Green, Maale Film School
Katie Green, who was born and brought up in the UK, graduated from the Ma'aleh School of Television and Film in 2003. She is now the head of PR for the school. Katie is also an independent producer and director, and is currently working on a documentary about Aliyah from British Jewish communities. Katie lives with her husband and three children in Bet Shemesh, Israel.
The Ma'aleh School of Television, Film & the Arts was established in 1989 to involve Israel's religious Jewish sector in the world of television and film. The school trains its filmmakers to produce work inspired by their rich Jewish traditions, contemporary Israeli experience and Western cultural values, thus bringing a new and authentic voice to Israeli cinema.
Joyce Klein
Joyce Klein is a playwright, director, storyteller, teacher and Jewish educator. She has been working in the combined fields of theater and Jewish education for 30 years. The plays she has written have been produced and performed in various places in the United States as well as in Israel, England and the Former Soviet Union.
Joyce has also written one children's book (The Shabbat Book) and one cd-rom (The Multi Media Haggadah) and is currently collaborating on a musical about two women pirates in the Caribbean. She has lived in Jerusalem since 1990, where she works as a consultant in theater in education and Living History.
Daniel Sperber, Bar Ilan University
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education and Talmudic studies.
Sperber studied for rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat Kol Torah in Israel, and earned a doctorate from University College, London in the departments of Ancient History and Hebrew Studies. He is currently Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and serves as Rabbi of The Menachem Zion Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Sperber's publication record in Jewish studies includes Minhagei Yisrael:
Origins and History on the character and evolution of Jewish customs. He won the Israel Prize in 1992. His studies include examination of halakhic and minhagic foundations of the role of women in Judaism.
Yair Zakovitch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Yair Zakovitch received his BA in Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Language and Biblical Studies from Haifa University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Bible from the Hebrew University. He served as Head of the Institute of Jewish Studies at HU from 1995-1997, and was Dean of Humanities from 1997-2001.
Prof. Zakovitch has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, has taught at the summer schools of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has presented lectures at the Hebrew Union College.
In Israel, Prof. Zakovitch is a well-known lecturer, teaching regularly at teachers¹ seminars, and continuing education throughout Israel, as well as on radio and television. He has taught at the Institute for Holy Land Studies on Mt. Zion, as well as at The Seminary of Judaic Studies, the rabbinic seminary of the conservative movement in Israel.